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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
King Camp Gillette was an American businessman. He invented a best-selling version of the safety razor. Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel. Gillette is often erroneously credited with inventing the so-called razor and blades business model in which razors are sold cheaply to increase the market for blades. However, Gillette Safety Razor Company adopted the business model from its competitors.
A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.
A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.
There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.